This is the August 2011 newsletter to all our MSF School sponsors and supporters to thank you for your help. Please write back to us and tell us what you think.

Our Aberdeen friends, the Badial/Khan family, had a car-boot sale in August and Anisha and Rhia (aged 12 and 11) raised more than £200 for us.

Rhia said "it went very well and it was super fun as well! We sold lots of odds and bodds, such as electrics, household items, kids toys and heaps of clothes!"

Anisha adds "We have decided to make the MSFoundation school a family charity and will do as much as we can for you. This will mean more car boot sales later on this year and the next."

Introducing: Priyanka, our new teacher of English, aged 20. She lives in Yellammabanda and she went to an English-medium school.

"I got a good education and then got into College and got my B.Com. Now I am saving for a few years to get a Master of Business Administration,

"It is my dream to visit a foreign country at least once in my life".

For our Independance Day celebration and flag-raising we were honoured by a visit from Inspector Reddy of the Cyberabad Police to raise the flag for us.

From left, Tom Holloway (MSF School Administration), Mohammad Kareem (MS Foundation President) and Inspector Reddy.

Lavanya says "Asiya is a new girl in the nursery. The teacher said she was crying all the time for her amma and wanted to leave the school, so we said she could sit with her sister in the big class and then she became happy.

Then she saw Tom Holloway and started crying again -- she had never seen a man with such white skin and it frightened her".

Just 20 yards from our school a group of three women and one man are breaking stones with heavy sledgehammers.

Ramola says "They are working on a contract to break them up small to make walls and houses. It is hard work but the women get Rs.100 (£1.40p) every day which is better than coolie work or the brickyards. I think the man is the gangleader and he will sell the smaller stones to builders".

Here are two girls from Class 3 showing off their work.

Pavani is on the left - she is sponsored by Thomas Going who lives in London and who sings in a choir which you can see here. On the right is Sunitha - sponsored by Jean Raeburn. a teacher at Saltwood School in Kent. We have a regular picture exchange project with them.